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DEAD OR ALIVE 2: BIRDS (DEAD OR ALIVE 2: TOBOSHA)
DISTR Theatrical, TV, VOD, Airline, Latin America
 
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Completed - JAPANESE - Crime, Comedy, Action/Adventure - 97 minutes

Log Line

Casting the same actors from the first title as new characters: a pair of rival yakuza assassins who turn out to be childhood friends; after a botched hit, they flee together to the island where they grew up, and decide to devote their deadly skills to a more humanitarian cause.

Year of production : 2000

Director(s) : Takashi MIIKE
Writer(s) : Masa NAKAMURA
Cast : Shô AIKAWA, Riki TAKEUCHI, Edison CHEN, Ken'ichi ENDÔ, Manzô SHINRA

Producer(s) : Yoshihiro MASUDA, Makoto OKADA

Synopsis

Casting the same actors from the first title as new characters: a pair of rival yakuza assassins who turn out to be childhood friends; after a botched hit, they flee together to the island where they grew up, and decide to devote their deadly skills to a more humanitarian cause.

- While the first installment of the trilogy was a high-octane thriller filled with drugs, sex, shoot-outs and mind-blowing moments of madness, in its spiritual sequel, Miike creates a strange, often sweet yakuza crime dramedy. In a new digital digital HD transfer.

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Country(ies) : JAPAN

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